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Loved reading this post on a sunny Sunday afternoon. 🙂
Your stories always make me smile, Grace! You have such an awesome family.
I hope you get used to the skinny jeans….LOL!
Hugs,
Ronnie xoPink Ronnie recently posted..It’s not funny, Jamie.

Oh Grace, that’s hilarious!
I’d love to share one of hubby’s fashion faux pas but unfortunately he’s a really trendy guy. He is a fan of fancy dress though and has been known to don a wig or two in his time.
Me, however… a different story. I get it wrong on a regular basis. My worst would perhaps be my favourite pair of pants. They are purple, covered in silver glitter, with purple diamantes running in a line down the outside of both legs. HOT. I bought them around 11 years ago to wear out on New Years Eve. I also wore them to Mardi Gras. Suffice to say they were definitely better suited to Mardi Gras. Why do I still own them? Because I just know in my heart I will need them again 😉Kelly HT and T recently posted..Weekend wrap up: Family time

Following along on Facebook, subscribed by email and I’ll tweet for you. Greatest fashion faux pas…do you remember Kung Fu shoes? Well I wore those. And parachute track suits? Well I wore one of those two. No further comment 🙂Bree @ Twinkle in the Eye recently posted..Mother Profile: Rebecca Westphal

There is nothing wrong with skinny jeans… well in my case there aren’t… I’ve found them awesome for photographing! Just enough stretch to keep you warm! LOL! xxxcarmen recently posted..I must be getting old…

Hmmm, my biggest fashion faux pas? I have too many to mention, and most of them come from the 80’s. My worst was attending my year 12 graduation formal in a dress that I thought was SO nice at the time… but looking back now, I shudder! Long flowy nylon/satin dress, with gold bodice and black skirt, complete with Dallas-style shoulder pads! Topped off with white pearls, gold chunky earrings and boofy permed and teased hair!

When I first met my hubby he was pure hip hop gangster – yeah with the butt crack baggy jeans 5 sizes too big! I though it was sexy but I look at him now and have to say I’m digging his Gap khakis and shirt look a whole lot more. As for my fashion blunders – I’m quite confident with what I wear, even when I miss the mark or break the rules BUT I do have this one video at a birthday party where I am wearing a dress that makes me look like a walking doily. Not cute. Just wrong!kirri recently posted..Being an inspired Mamma

More than willing to put my husband’s fashion faux pas forward, but it is hard to select exactly which one.

I think wearing his favourite tracksuit pants to the footy. Doesn’t sound so bad in itself does it? But these were over loved trackies, where the material is wearing thin, on the strategic front and back parts. I will say nothing further except to add thank the good Lord he was wearing underpants!!Ash Kaye recently posted..The Parenting Swagger

This is a great giveaway! I’ve subscribed to your email list and I’ve liked you on facebook!!

My most common fashion faux pas is doing the emergency supermarket run on a sunday morning with ugg boots on… and I ALWAYS run into at least ONE person that I know! Cringe!Lisa recently posted..Exploding Chocolate Cake

I’m not participating in the giveaway, but I just want to say… I can imagine Mr Surfer in skinny jeans and the look is not as bad as you think it is. (No, I’m not after your husband!) Does it matter really how old you are?Tat recently posted..Grateful for trees

Thanks for naming the “up-down-then-up-again-are-you-for-real-stare” – I can cut and past this into my texts from now on!

Although I can’t participate in your give away, my mom once raided my make-up bag for lipstick when a client showed up unannounced. She went through the entire meeting with concealer on her lips! The client finally asked her if she ate a powdered donut or something. She’s my mom, but I did laugh in her face – she looked ridiculous.Nami recently posted..Gold Aspirations

When I moved 800 km away from my parents I “stole” a jumper that my dad loved to wear. It’s not very pretty but it’s warm and comforting and I wear it on cold days when I’m lounging around at home – and not expecting any visitors!

Mine was when I was about 7! I had not long had my long blonde hair cut into a boy-like wedge! (THANKS SO MUCH MUM!) Anyway I was so desperate to have long hair again that I used to walk around the house with a long black dress over my head so I could pretend it was luscious long locks of hair. Embarrassing I know but what’s a young girl to do?

My husband is slowing getting better when it comes to dressing himself! But that could be due to the fact he owns a handful of each tops and bottoms and they all seem to kind of match. I say kind of because it’s not quite but compared to what he used to wear he is dressed to meet the queen.Kell (Mad Mummas Sweet Randoms) recently posted..Personal-Planner Review + GIVEAWAY!

Its always a thing for me, When having pre drinks for a big night out, I am dressed in my sexy slinky dress BUT I am always wearing my slippers and MUSt have a gorkie drinking hat of some kind… Once i forgot to change the shoes and i left the drinking hat on before i hit the clubs… lets just say they wouldnt let me in anywhere! =/

My faux pas was as a teenager – my mother suggested I wear a (home-made) silky jumpsuit to school on plain clothes day. I thought the idea was cool, as I had no idea about fashion. Everyone else wore jeans. OMG. It was my longest day ever at school, the weather was cold, and I nearly froze. I’ve been damaged goods ever since!

This might not totally qualify as a fashion faux pas, but…I was touching up my makeup in a rather dark corner of a disco (yep, this was years ago!!) and turns out I thought my lipstick was a concealer which I applied liberally to a few acne spots on my face! Apparently I looked like a 2-year-old who had just discovered her mothers makeup! Taught me a valuable lesson about looking in a mirror BEFORE you re-enter the world!

My fashion faux pas from earlier days was turning up overdressed for casual occasions – dress skirt and heels for the movies; same for a casual staff party. Just couldn’t seem to get it right in those days!

At the Casino, I had a ‘BRIEF’ encounter showing off my ‘CHEEKY’ side. After walking out the toilets, I didn’t realise I had my dress tucked into my undies. To make matters worse, I also had toilet paper stuck on the back of my dress. I was ‘LEGGING’ it, literally!

It’s a wonder my husband and I ever got past the first date because he rocked up to my house in a Seesucker suit! My eyes nearly popped out of my head and a quick glance at my flatmate about to burst out laughing, almost made me cry because I didn’t want to go out the door with him! But I did and we had a fantastic time. Needless to say, at the first opportunity, that suit which reminded me so much of nanna’s tablecloth went in the bin! That was back in 1981 and I have bought most of his clothes since!

My biggest fashion faux pas was feeling a little blary eyed one morning after a big work function the night before, I remember running out the door with my shoes in hand and when I put them on at work, one was blue and one was black, oh well my boss said we all need some colour in our lives

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Indonesian-born, Grace spent extensive time living and working overseas, primarily in Japan. She now resides in Sydney where she is mum to identical twin boys and wife to an avid surfer. While she has happily replaced office life with motherhood, Grace has discovered that a 10 year career in corporate sales and being fluent in 3 languages is futile when dealing with toddler tantrums and singing “The Wheels On The Bus”